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Beer Summit
Jim Koch, founder and chairman of The Boston Beer Company, brewers of Samuel Adams Beer, is a pioneer of the American palate as well as a quiet...
Read & DiscussJaime Wolf on Filmmaker Chris Marker
"May you live in interesting times," that sly curse, reputed to come from ancient China, is actually apocryphal, no more Chinese than the fortune...
Read & DiscussCensor-y Overlords
Under ordinary circumstances, Chinese censors make it difficult for filmmakers to present any kind of meaningful depiction of contemporary life,...
Read & DiscussChina And The Pirates

In the current issue, the filmmaker Jia Zhang Ke writes about how China's rampant DVD piracy has created a class of street vendors operating...
Read & DiscussThe Chinese MC Hammer

As the harrowing details of yesterday's 7.8 earthquake in Sichuan Province continue to pile up, allow us to offer a few moments of light respite...
Read & DiscussChina's Secret Weapon

We bet no one at Hill & Knowlton is smart enough to suggest this, but if the Chinese government really wants to endear itself to the rest of the...
Read & DiscussChina's Less-Polished News Sources

Too frequently the slick, overly produced style of network television news shows ends up obscuring the actual subjects they're purportedly...
Read & DiscussBe Scared Of China (Sometimes)

Status of Chinese People is an aggregator blog primarily spotlighting news stories about authoritarian abuses committed by the Chinese Government....
Read & DiscussA Chinese Pop Primer And Mixtape

Although the mainland has evolved rich and vibrant offerings in film and television in the post-Mao era, most Chinese-language pop music still...
Read & DiscussChina's "Most Famous Foreigner"
If you happen to come across a Chinese language instruction program on CCTV International called "Sports Chinese," you may not be aware that its...
Read & DiscussChina's Green Brothers

In honor of Earth Day, we'd like to point you to the Green Brothers, aka John Romankiewicz and Shane Zhao Xiangyu, enthusiastic young men in their...
Read & DiscussCrazy English

"Crazy English" is a popular method of English-language instruction in which Chinese students declaim random-sounding sentences in unison, in...
Read & DiscussEveryone Talks About The Weather...

The old saying that "everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it" turns out not to be true in China. The latest issue of...
Read & DiscussDocument China

Earlier we spotlighted the amazing China photographs of Greg Girard. Fritz Hoffmann, Girard's partner in the photo agency Document China, also has...
Read & DiscussPhantom Shanghai

We're pretty crazy about Greg Girard, whose pictures of Shenzen accompany Adam Matthews's story in this issue. After a decade based in Hong Kong,...
Read & DiscussThey Win Medals!

Table tennis will be the hottest local ticket at the Beijing Olympics, and the U.S. competitors are bound to be anxious.
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